Warehouses for Lease in Oshawa, ON
Represented by Michael Law — industrial broker, Lennard Commercial Realty
Region
East GTA
Avg Net Rent
$15.75/SF(Q1 2026)
Availability
5.2%
Clear Heights
24'–40'
Highway Access
Highway 401, Highway 418, Highway 2
Oshawa Warehouse Market
Oshawa anchors the eastern end of the PAWO industrial corridor and represents the most affordable Class-A distribution address in the GTA East market. Located approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto along Highway 401, Oshawa has undergone a meaningful structural shift as last-mile logistics, e-commerce fulfillment, and regional distribution operators have absorbed former manufacturing space and purpose-built new product along the 401 corridor. The primary industrial nodes are concentrated around the Farewell Street and Thornton Road interchanges off Highway 401, where a mix of legacy multi-tenant small-bay product and newer distribution-format buildings with 28-32 foot clear heights are available. Highway 418 connects north to Highway 407, giving Oshawa operators a link to the 407 ETR and York Region markets. Net asking rents in Oshawa range from $13.50 to $17.50 per square foot net, making it the most competitive major submarket in the GTA East corridor. Tenant demand is led by last-mile logistics serving Durham Region's growing residential base, regional e-commerce fulfillment, food and beverage distribution, and building materials users. Michael Law advises industrial tenants and investors across the GTA East corridor including Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Pickering, and Scarborough.
Sourcing Warehouses for Lease — My Approach
When I source warehouse space for a tenant, the rent number is the last thing I look at — not the first. The questions that actually drive a successful warehouse lease are: what is the building's true power capacity (often the bottleneck for racking, automation, or refrigeration), what is the trailer storage and yard depth (critical for any 3PL or distribution use), what is the clear height under the joists versus the deck (a common 2-3 foot misrepresentation in listing materials), and what does the dock-to-door ratio actually look like at peak operating volume. I walk every short-listed building with the tenant's operations lead, not just the real estate lead, because the person who actually runs the floor catches things the marketing brochure hides — slope of the slab, location of the column grid relative to racking layout, sprinkler density for the proposed commodity classification. A great warehouse lease starts with the operational fit, not the per-square-foot rent. Rent is the negotiation that comes after we've found the right building.
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